Josh Clark
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Like you said, they have a suction cup.
They just attach themselves to the branch or whatever that they're walking on.
And if you watch it in close enough… Detail?
Excellent, Chuck.
You can really see those suction cups working, and it's pretty cool.
Like, what's his name from Reading Rainbow, but on Star Trek The Next Generation?
No, I think it's... Is it more on the front?
It could be on top.
You don't really know what's what.
It's kind of like a Studebaker.
You can't tell which way it's going.
That joke was for our aged listeners who love a good Studebaker joke.
So they also breathe in a really interesting way.
They breathe through spiracles, which are holes in the side of the caterpillar, and they breathe in oxygen.
It goes directly to the trachea and they breathe out carbon dioxide.
And as they move, it's kind of like breathing in and breathing out.
That's like a byproduct of their movement.